Steemit, And any other form of gambling, fit hand in hand. So get out there and build the Steemit version of every gambling idea you've ever seen and I bet you it's gold.
Screenshot of http://steemloto.com/ a new project from @heimindanger & @blueorgy that popped up on my feed today.
- Provably Fair system via transparency.
Between having the code being open sourced, having your reputation on the line, having an incentive not to rip people off in hopes of continually making money on your "reporting" posts and so on, there admins of such websites have very little incentive to design the system in a way that will harm the project, therefore we can assume for the most part any sort of gambling related systems built on-top of Steem can be game-chambers for anything from cards to fantasy football, or as one user has created: The Steemit Lottery! @heimindanger & @blueorgy have created a wonderful website where we Steemians can go to gamble our souls away and I for one, am a huge fan already!
- Public Ledger system means no one gets cheated, because there will always be a paper trail.
I know everyone is going to say something along the lines of why would you want everyone knowing how much money you won? But think about it, this means noone can deny the truth, it's in the blockchain, no need for a court system or anything, the proof is always going to be public and the truth will always prevail, thus having a provably transparent gambling system is, in my opinion, the better way to do gambling.
You can always see where the money goes, who wins, if someone is gaming the system and so on, so why wouldn't you want all records of gambling to be public?
- Free, Nearly Instant Micro-transactions.
This is Steemits hidden gem of a feature, the fact that there is nearly instant transactions on a system that lets you send any amount of money within the system, for free! This way there is no need for fees, hold ups or anything else, you can just gamble as if you are sitting in the casino already! Just drop a quarter, and be on with it!
- No need to monetize and/or tax the platform as much since Steemit already operates as a funding mechanism via blogging.
There is alot less incentive to skim any money off the top of the system with the excuse of not having another source of income because Steemit is built to help you solve that exact issue. You can simply build a Steem related product, if its a hit, the population will support you and you will have zero need to sell advertising space, and/or add in fees to reduce the quality of the game. This way you get a more fun, clean experience that has class.
- Steemit's ecosystem is modular, you can build anything from the "old world" in a new, "steemier" fashion.
Anything can be bootstraped ontop of Steemit, literally anything can be built to harness the awesome power that is the Steem blockchain of glory. I think that we have enough talented developers around here that we can really get things going much faster than any crypto before Steemit. The cards are in our hands ladies and gentlemen, how do we play them?
In Conclusion; build stuff! Get crazy!
I think Steemit is going to grow into something much larger than it ever anticpated to, beyond being a marketplace, Steemit is going to become an entire Bazaar of things; from Gambling to Services, Products, Charities, New types of business and so on Steemit might just change the world...
Some fun ideas from my brainstorming: Steem Dice, Slots, Steemit Poker, Steemit Roulette, Steemit Fantasy Football (Weekly, Daily: both player and/or winning), sports betting in general, misc. card games, any sort of traditional board game (monopoly), p2p gambling via games of any sort such as counterstrike or anything of the users choice and so on and so forth. There are many use cases for these and Steemit is THE perfect platform for doing this!
ps. the lottery on http://steemloto.com/ is getting pretty hefty lol, under an hour left!
Check it out here: https://steemit.com/steemloto/@heimindanger/introducing-the-first-steem-dollars-lottery-only-usd0-01-sbd-per-ticket